I've been using computers my whole life, and a lot of the magic has been explained away. Wine is a project that continues to astound me.
Grats to the Wine team, this is great!
Grats to the Wine team, this is great!
Though granted the games I play tend not to be cutting edge (but for example, Skyrim with a large texture pack and a full, heavy mod conversion such as Enderal works perfectly and with CSMT, with performances roughly equal to Windows).
here FTFY.
We've come a long way since Loki ports.
Can you elaborate on this? My intuition is that running an application in a VM provides more security than in wine.
Given the context, I don't believe mark-r was talking about using a Windows host for the Linux VM.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
I don't know how much sandboxing Wine provides, so it might not be necessary to do this.
Wine has a much harder task. Since the common Windows libraries are closed source and non-redistributable, the Wine project basically has to reimplement every API/ABI that Windows provides. This is a much larger and harder project.
It would be a nice gesture of Microsoft if they released some of the core Windows libraries as open source. But of course, that's not going to happen.
[1] This is of course much harder than it sounds.
A few years ago, I'd have agreed with you. I used to be a card-carrying Microsoft hater for many years. And I still agree that the chances of that hapening are small, but given Microsofts changes over the last few years and the stream of open source releases, who knows any more...
I don't think they will open source things Windows in a constellation where people could start making Windows distributions (which could lead to large incompatibilities) or run GUI apps on Linux or Windows.